Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Speed the Plough." Performance...
...running than to allow them to scatter at will. The flyers are thus restrained and the new men and those out of perfect training are able to keep up until the hunt is nearly over. From the break homewards is a good test of a man's endurance and speed, and the many close races to the finish keep up the spirits of the men and induce them to do their best. Forty or fifty hounds are not too many to be easily managed, and the more the merrier for all engaged...
...rival, and at the beginning of the second half mile was a length to the good. Both crews now settled down to steady work, and finished the first mile in nearly the same relative position as at the first mile. The second mile was rowed at about the same speed as the first by our crew, but the Columbia men quickened their stroke so that the third mile was begun with the boats almost...
...pausing near the coal wharf they stripped off their ferseys and prepared for a final spurt past the crowd of spectators. This time the men in the boat, urged on by the loud cries of their coxswain, fairly made their shell jump through the water, and this exhibition of speed was greeted by nine cheers repeated several times. On they went, still spurting finely, and shooting through the fraw of the bridge below were lost to sight on their way down their river. This latter row was the beginng of a four-mile time pull down to the West Boston...
...precision of ideas. In order to attain any considerable degree of skill it is essential that he should be a good reasoned. Distances, effect of the atmosphere and wind, are among the points to be considered. If the shot is to be made at any kind of game, the speed at which it is moving must, of course, be noted. Unfortunately in the Northern States there is comparatively little game worthy the attention of a rifle. In Canada, Maine, and in the Adriondacks, there is still found some large game, although not in so great an abundance...